Queen Elizabeth II commissioned a ruby and diamond tiara.

The Queen also hosts " QVC Shopping Channel " with Prince Philip, who is selling a diamond tiara for nothing to any member of the Royal household.

Markievicz came directly to her first meeting from a function at Dublin Castle, the seat of British rule in Ireland, wearing a satin ball-gown and a diamond tiara.

Lady Beekman ( Norma Varden ) proudly shows Lorelei her diamond tiara.

Lorelei, feeling she deserves a reward, persuades Piggy to give her his wife's diamond tiara as a thank-you present.

At the end of that year, she travelled to Venice and performed at the Teatro di San Samuele in the opera La Didone Abbandonata, wearing a tiara, necklace, and diamond earrings that had been given to her by the Russian Empress.

Mulch was lured by Artemis Fowl to steal the priceless Fei Fei tiara which contains an enormous blue diamond.

She wore a diamond and rock-crystal tiara that had been commissioned from Cartier and a lace veil that had belonged to Marie Antoinette.

The tiara was described by Leslie Field as " a diamond festoon-and-scroll design surmounted by nine large oriental pearls on diamond spikes and set on a bandeau base of alternate round and lozenge collets between two plain bands of diamonds ".

" She continued in this vein, asking him to paint several rings on her fingers and a ruby and diamond tiara for good measure.

Laura Lopes wore a diamond tiara that belongs to her mother's family.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

In fact, O'Connor was honoured during the ceremony with the presentation of a $2500 diamond stickpin.

He was given to public carousing and to acting the clown on the diamond ; ;

One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

Up until the 18th century, amethyst was included in the cardinal, or most valuable, gemstones ( along with diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald ).

As the towns and cities of the Middle Ages began to grow, and the general populace was unable to read, signs that today would say cobbler, miller, tailor or blacksmith would use an image associated with their trade such as a boot, a suit, a hat, a clock, a diamond, a horse shoe, a candle or even a bag of flour.

Soon, the seat tube was added, creating the double-triangle diamond frame of the modern bike.

The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was thought to be a good design for defence.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

The Board of Trade carat was divisible into four diamond grains, but measurements were typically made in multiples of carat.

In 1772, Antoine Lavoisier used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen, and showed that the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide, proving that diamond is composed of carbon.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

In November 2008 the Air Force of Zimbabwe was sent, after some police officers began refusing orders to shoot the illegal miners at Marange diamond fields.

In 2008 some Zimbabwean lawyers and opposition politicians from Mutare claimed that Shiri was the prime mover behind the military assaults on illegal diggers in the diamond mines in the east of Zimbabwe.

Robinson was also known for his pursuits outside the baseball diamond.

The diamond was traditionally known as Syamantaka-mani and later Madnayak or the " King of Jewels ", before being renamed " Kuh-e nur " in the 18th century by Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani of Khorasan after their conquest of India.

The unprepared army of Kakatiya was defeated this time and the diamond was seized by the champion army of Delhi Sultanate.

This diamond was with the Kachhwaha rulers of Gwalior and then inherited by the Tomara line.

His acquisition of the diamond, amongst many other things, was criticized even by some of his contemporaries in Britain.

He thereupon formed a consortium of diamond buyers from Belgium and the USA which purchased the diamond, then valued at £ 180, 000.

The merchant had purchased the diamond from an English sea captain, who had, in fact, stolen the diamond from a servant of Abul Hasan Qutb Shah.

Other sources claim that the diamond was purchased in Constantinople by de Sancy.

The temporary solution was that Woolf ( Babe ) Barnato, of the " Bentley Boys ", heir to Kimberley diamond magnate Barney Barnato purchased all the business assets and they continued much as before with Barnato chairman but W O was now Barnato's employee.

The rivalry ended when Rhodes purchased the Barnatos ' firm for GB £ 4. 0 million ( equivalent to £ 2. 03 billion in 2010 ); this transaction was a key step in the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, the international diamond mining conglomerate.

In 1878, the Russian Prince Felix Youssoupoff purchased a corsage decorated with 6 detachable diamond bows during one of his visits to Paris.

The famous diamond known as the " French Blue " or the " Tavernier Blue " was purchased by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier from the Kollur mine in the mid-17th century.

The diamond was purchased from Tavernier by King Louis XIV of France but was stolen during the French Revolution ; it is believed to have reappeared as the recut Hope Diamond ..

The diamond was purchased and cut by the William Goldberg Diamond Corp., where it went by its original name, the Red Shield.

He then moved on to work at the Mabuki diamond mine, which he purchased from the owners in 1936 when they had decided to shut the mine down.

A consortium of diamond merchants from London purchased it along with its even larger sister, the Excelsior, in 1896, and sent it to Amsterdam where it was polished by M. B.

Alarmed, Curtis races to his apartment to retrieve an engraved diamond bracelet that Martin had purchased for Sheila ; unknown to him, Martin had arranged to have the bracelet re-engraved for Sonya.